However, there are still plenty of people who grew up loving the film — in the same way you come to love a tatty old teddy from your childhood, we guess — and those very same individuals will no doubt be overjoyed to learn that this cult movie is getting a 20th anniversary screening later this month.

The time has come! As the 20th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. draws near, we are pleased to announce a special screening that will be held at the NuArt Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on Friday, May 24th at midnight!

Screenwriter Parker Bennett and production designer David L. Snyder will be sitting on a Q & A panel, answering questions from fans.

We will also have a few other anniversary surprises, so be sure to join us in the festivities!

If you're based near LA, will you be making the trip? Post a comment to tell us.

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I personally think the Super Mario Bros film was necessary- because it showed film makers that by only using names and the vaguest of connections to source material leaves the fans unhappy. These days films like the Avengers stick much closer to the original idea which keeps the fans a lot happier.

It wasn't really a bad bland Hollywood film, it just didn't really have that much in connection with the Game, probably due to the lack of CGI and reliance on real life actors. I would be curious to see what a Mario film produced these days would look like though....

I enjoyed this movie as a kid and to this day I still do most of can say it was bad all u want u forget the garbage vg movies out now its funny how u don't remember double dragon movie and how bad it was

I saw it twice opening weekend (seriously). I was 11 and thought it was an interesting take on the source material. Seeing Yoshi, "Bowser," Toad, Iggy & Spike, etc. was awesome. It's like Burton's BATMAN, you have to make a FILM version. Would I have rather seen the more abstract version of the script? Absolutely, but we got a Mario movie and it's not THAT bad. I still play as Luigi in all of the spin-off games because of Leguizamo. (Everyone kept laying a stake to Yoshi in SUPER MARIO KART....)

You gotta love this trailer because it's so bad. I grew up loving the movie so it does have a special spot in my heart I guess. Also, when Bowser say "see you later aligator", he kind of sounds like Dr. Evil.

Honestly making Nintendo franchises look like they're from real life is stupid because it looks disturbing. I once saw a hyper realistic Mewtwo on the internet and it looks like it's about to die of thirst. It also no longer looks like a grey alien.

All my point is That in the Avengers, most of the characters look quite like their counterparts, have similar back stories, and live in a similar world to the comics. Batman and Spiderman at least try to follow the key points of the original source as well, even if some things are changed to make them fit into a 90 minute movie.

In the Mario Brothers film, Luigi was a pretty boy teenager. Daisy was his tough sassy girlfriend who was an orphaned college student, who was from a race of parallel humans who evovled from reptiles, as was Dennis Hopper who had sticky up blonde hair. He de-evolves people into 7 foot reptile creatures called Koopa Troopers, including a guy named Toad. Eventually Dennis Hopper is turned into a giant Tyrannasaurus, and they all have a fight. If you turned the sound down on this film, there's a chance you wouldn't be able to figure out it was connected to the iconic video game at all- Only Bob Hoskins comes close to resembling the character he's playing.

Trust me, these days Hollywood gives the original source material more reverence.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!----I grew up in the 90's and remember all the hype, and promos and such for the movie---and was SO psyched when i rented it on VHS at Blockbuster back in the day! Yeah, it's cheesy--but NO more cheesy than the "DOUBLE DRAGON" movie, or the MORTAL KOMBAT prequel---PLUS this had YOSHI, and a ton of great little easter eggs and other hidden gems: Mario's girlfriend in the movie Danielle's middle name is PAULINE---the bomb-omb scene is the GREATEST SCENE EVER!! The Super Scope is the Devo Gun, bullet bills are the stomper cartridges(sorta Kuribo shoes I'm betting), THWOMP is a bar, Hammer Bros sign, SMB1 music in the beginning of the credits, Spike and Iggy, "Big Bertha the bouncer at the Boom Boom Bar"(SMB3 LOVE!!)---and it's just a perfect mesh of Mario madness...it stank, yeah, but its still a great piece of horribly-awesome video game movie!!

A lot of people hated this movie because it strayed from the source material, but I think they didn't have much of a choice. At the time this was made, Mario games were about running through levels, jumping on goombas, kicking turtle shells and using a leaf to turn you into a flying raccoon while avoiding an angry sun who chased you.

I think what they did with this was interesting, they created back stories for one dimensional characters and tried to add some sort of realism to it. Some parts were very cheesy of course, but overall it wasn't too bad. The trick is to separate in your mind this movie from the video games enough to not be annoyed that a thwomp is some big lady with power boots rather than a giant stone that floats up in the air and falls down. Or that King Koopa is an evolved Tyranasaurus who rules the land, rather than a big spiky lizard who jumps up and down and blows fireballs.

For live action, I liked Super Mario Bros.For staying true to the Super Mario games, there's always Super Mario Bros. Super Show and the Adventures of SMB3 cartoons.